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Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.


Ali Farahnakian

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NADIA ALI I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebano...
NADIA ALI As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
NADIA ALI I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
NADIA ALI I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights b...
NADIA ALI Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me...
NADIA ALI I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand ou...
NADIA ALI Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance...
NADIA ALI How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white fo...
ALI SMITH Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves
- except, ...
ALI SMITH We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance.
AISHA ALI It's normal to move the pelvis. It's not meant to be lascivious. It's meant to be a form of everyday...
AISHA ALI Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know a...
AISHA ALI The neck moves and the shoulders move and the chest lifts and the diaphragm lifts. The pelvis goes u...
AISHA ALI The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the...
AHMED ALI Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go t...
AHMED ALI All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam...
AHMED ALI We voted for the one who can make a change,
AHMED ALI People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling.
AHMED ALI It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country?
AHMED ALI some of the neighbouring countries still interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan and make the situat...
AHMED ALI None of the competitors is stronger than him.
AHMED ALI accomplishments, and at the same time, none of the competitors is stronger than him.
AHMED ALI If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him, ... does that mean we're not democratic?
AHMED ALI Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up...
ALI SMITH Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than pa...
ZAMAN ALI